​Kate Haskell

When it comes to working in a man’s world there can be no bigger challenge than being a female police officer. Even in TV drama world there is Inspector Morse, Cracker, Foyle’s War and Columbo and not many of your Cagney & Laceys. This month’s Inspirational Woman may only be one of just a few female Superintendents, but she is doing what she always wanted to do and that’s “make a difference”. Sam De Reya started her police career jumping over fences in Gateshead, working for

As someone far more worthy than me once said: “The woman who follows a crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone will find herself in a place that no one has ever been to before.” A quote by the great Albert Einstein which could not be more applicable to Emma Massingale. She’s an adventurer with a wild spirit who has a natural ability to tame other wild spirits and made a career, or should I say, vocation, out of it. A christening gift of a po